Tennis Takeaways from the Men’s Singles Championship Match at Roland-Garros 2025

My final takeaways from a thrilling epic Final in the Mens Singles Championship at Roland-Garros 2025.

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner played a gripping 5 sets and tiebreak over 5+ hours before a sold-out Paris crowd and global television audience.

1. Tennis is a supremely mental game. Two elite athletes, Alcaraz and Sinner, with no technical flaws and playing at the top of their youthful game showed that winning is often the outcome of a mental battle - with the opponent and with yourself.

2. Closing a match is the hardest thing of all. Sinner had 3 Championship points in the 3rd set, up 5-3, 40-love, and failed to close. Thus, everyone in any match can “choke” or let down. But you can always find a way to re-set.

3. Tennis is the most difficult sport. It does not close itself out. There is no end clock, no programmed timeouts, no substitutes. The winner must affirmatively close out the match to win. Alcaraz and Sinner engaged in a gripping see-saw battle to see who would eventually close out the match.

4. Tennis, like life, is played one point, and one event, at a time - so you always have a chance to win if you just focus on playing the next point or accomplishing the next event. Both players showed us to focus on the next shot, the next stroke, the next in-coming ball.

5. Tennis can be a very streaky game. Players at all levels can go on incredible streaks of unbelievable winners or errors. A locked-in Alcaraz played and won a 5th set tiebreak with an insane streak of mind-blowing winners.